The study shows a sudden and sharp increase in the rural suicide rate beginning a generation ago. In the early 1970s, suicide rates of rural men exceeded the urban rate by just 4%. But by the late 1990s, the suicide rate for rural men exceeded the urban rate by 54%.It'd be interesting to throw party affiliation into this equation.
The urban suicide rate didn’t decline. The gap between rural and urban rates widened because of an increase in rural suicides.
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